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Title: Occupational Therapist
Reports to: Building Principal/Director of Special Education
Supervises: Assigned students/staff members
Evaluation: Director of Special Education
Job Summary: Evaluate children for occupational therapy services.
Qualifications: Bachelors degree with appropriate licensure.
Performance Responsibilities:
- Conduct screenings and observations throughout the district.
- Perform evaluations and present information at IEP meetings.
- Attend team meetings on particular students.
- Collaborate with teachers/staff/related service providers.
- Provide support services classrooms.
- Maintain progress reports on all students on caseload.
- Provide therapy services in the areas of sensory integration, visual
motor integration, visual processing, motor coordination, precision
motor control, and maintenance in regular education classrooms,
resource room pull out, and life skills/autism room both
individually and in group settings.
- Assist with transition services from preschool to elementary,
elementary to middle school, middle school to high school, and high
school to the community.
- Assist with vision-suggestions, modifications, and assessments.
- Sensory programs-evaluate, score, and provide suggestions and/or
modifications.
- Order equipment needed for specific students throughout the
district.
- Maintain Medicaid logs on eligible students.
- Write treatment plans and home-based delivery when applicable.
- Community based outing with life skills/autism rooms.
- Allow those students who for some reason dont meet the criteria for
qualification but still need some help participate in group
occupational therapy so that they can benefit from the services
also.
- Other duties as assigned.
Physical Requirements/Environmental Condition:
Physical and emotional ability and dexterity to perform required work
and move about as needed in a fast-pace, high-intensive work
environment.